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Micah Toll, who graduated with a bachelor of science degree yesterday from the University of Pittsburgh, is the founder of an electric bicycle startup called Pulse Motors. Pulse Motors is based in Pittsburgh, but now with Toll graduated from college, he’s ready to expand. Rather than expand down the street, or another state over, he’s decided to expand to Tel Aviv, Israel some 6,000 miles away.
The company’s first electric bike is called the Personal Electric Vehicle Zero or PEVO. Toll, his partners Thorin Tobiassen, and Max Pless along with their fleet of beta testers in Pittsburgh have already amassed 1,000 test miles on their first prototype and Toll reports that the #2 and #3 bikes aren’t far behind.
Toll, who was named one of the top 5 college entrepreneurs by Entrepreneur Magazine, has already spent dome time in Tel Aviv. Through the Jewish Agency for Israel Toll was able to participate in a program called “Birthright” on a trip to Israel in 2011 Toll communicated with his team via video chat, which he will continue when he moves out there this summer.
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